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5-a-day, Fructose and the Department of Health

13.09.2012 ARTICLES
Fructose

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald Fructose, commonly known as the ‘fruit sugar’, has been written about previously on this website. Fruit, fruit juice and therefore fructose was the topic of my first ever video blog for Mac-Nutrition (see below) and now I’m going to talk a little bit about the 5-a-day concept. However, in case [...]

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BBC2 The Men Who Made Us Fat

27.08.2012 ARTICLES
The men who made us fat

The Men Who Made Us Fat ‘The Men Who Made Us Fat’ was such an amazing documentary and it has been uploaded to YouTube so we thought we’d just include a quick link for anyone who didn’t manage to see it. In particular, Parts 1 to 4 are the most informative of how the state [...]

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Sports Drinks, Skill Maintenance and Cricket Performance

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
sports drinks

by Matthew Lees, BA The topic of sugar consumption is a key aspect of the Mac-Nutrition philosophy, and there is a wealth of information available within this website supporting a lower carb, ‘real food’ approach to nutrition. For sedentary populations in particular, this should be regarded as the de facto attitude in terms of diet [...]

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Nutrition Myth Busting Videos

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
Myth Busting Videos

Videos by Martin MacDonald Over the last few months, Total Greek Yoghurt have been releasing a series of nutrition and diet myth busting videos that we filmed back in January 2012. I got to pick the topics and interestingly a lot of what I am talking about has come up in the recent BBC Documentay [...]

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Fructose kills….?

16.01.2012 ARTICLES
Orange Juice 2.3''

From the archive: First posted in 2010 A fantastically interesting study looking at the difference between drinking glucose sweetened and fructose sweetened drinks. Fructose is commonly known as the ‘healthy sugar’ however, the results of this study show something slightly different. Things like Coca Cola are generally sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) or [...]

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What are manufacturers putting in food…

16.01.2012 ARTICLES
Sugar packet 2.3''

So, yesterday, Mrs Mac came into the office and said “I looked through what must have been fifty jars of jam yesterday and could only find two that didn’t have glucose-fructose syrup in them!” Unfortunately, its getting harder and harder to spot the nasties that are getting added to our food! Even with the best [...]

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